Sarah McBride

And I think people have to understand that this is essentially this president's Crimea.

And if he is able

through coercion and intimidation, through economic warfare, if he is able to take Greenland, it completely shatters the foundation of NATO, which I also think based on the speech, he doesn't actually fully understand.

And he said if Russia or China were to do anything in Greenland, that Denmark would not be able to respond by themselves.

That's literally the whole point of NATO.

It's collective defense.

And the president has said the only way to actually truly secure Greenland is for the United States to own it and seize it, which also implicitly suggests that the United States is turning its back on Article 5, that we will only defend places that we have territorial control over.

And so either the president doesn't understand this or he is willfully and intentionally trying to destroy not only NATO as an institution, but quite literally the greatest force for peace and stability, not just in Europe, but in the world that we've really ever known.

I think people have to understand that we are at an inflection point right here.

I think they know that domestically.

But the world international rules based order is coming collapsing in around us.

And, you know, we're celebrating 250 years of the United States.

And as we celebrate 250 years of the United States, I've been thinking a lot about another sort of time frame.

And that is 80 years, because it does seem like this country every 80 years faces an inflection point.

We have the Revolutionary War 80 years later.

We have the Civil War 80 years later.

We have the Great Depression and World War II.

And now we are 80 years from that last inflection point.

And I think it's as the last living memories of that previous inflection point and the lessons learned in that previous inflection point die out, which is what's happening with the greatest generation right now.

We are faced with either learning the lessons of history by listening to the voices of the past or forced to repeat that history.